In this book excerpt, learn how to import data into R from spreadsheets, HTML tables, and more.

The table below shows my favorite go-to R packages for data import, wrangling, visualization and analysis — plus a few miscellaneous tasks tossed in.

Get started using the open source R programming language to do statistical computing and graphics on large data sets ...

In R, we can export a dataset using various file formats. Permissible file types are .xls, .xlsx, .csv, and .txt. In the sections below, we will focus on the .txt and .csv file types. The write.table( ...